‘Unang Hirit’ unveils ‘Sorpresayang Pasko’

Waking up to a cool morning breeze means Christmas is coming. It is also that time of the year for Filipinos’ favorite morning show “Unang Hirit” to delight viewers with the sounds of a Yuletide jingle.

Last November 5, the country’s longest-running morning show kicked off the week by unveiling its Christmas Opening Billboard this year, dubbed as “Sorpresayang Pasko.”

“Sorpresayang Pasko” features a series of surprises, all done in the holiday spirit of giving back. The program installed a giant UH SorpreSaya Box in the middle of the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City, which, as its name implies, stored a lot of special surprise gifts for Kapuso viewers. They were either invited to go there or happened to just pass by the area. Each lucky Kapuso received a memorable trinket from the UH SorpreSaya Box through UH remote hosts Boobay and Juancho Trivino.

The surprises did not stop there though. Boobay and Juancho then revealed an even bigger treat: the UH barkada themselves! Arnold “Igan” Clavio and the rest of UH hosts Susan Enriquez, Rhea Santos, Connie Sison, Ivan Mayrina, Suzi Abrera, and Lyn Ching-Pascual came out of the giant UH SorpreSaya Box and greeted everyone in the area.

They also delivered the exciting news that some of the simple items that Kapuso fans got from the SorpreSaya Box had a corresponding “Kambal Sorpresa.” The lucky person who got the dipper or “tabo,” for one, also brought home a brand new washing machine; the one who picked an extension cord received a TV set; while the one who picked a cup of rice actually won a sack of rice, and so much more!

Indeed, the “Sorpresayang Pasko” is Unang Hirit’s simple way of putting smiles on the faces of each and every Filipino—the people to whom the show owes its success as they have made UH their No. 1 source of news, information, and entertainment for the past 18 years.